Maqu County
རྨ་ཆུ་རྫོང་། · 玛曲县 | |
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.png) Maqu County (red) within Gannan Prefecture (yellow) and Gansu | |
  Maqu Location of the seat in Gansu  Maqu Maqu (China) | |
| Coordinates (Maqu government): 33°59′52″N 102°04′22″E / 33.9977°N 102.0727°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Gansu |
| Autonomous prefecture | Gannan |
| County seat | Nyinma (Nima) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 10,190 km2 (3,930 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
| • Total | 57,076 |
| • Density | 5.6/km2 (15/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 747300 |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 玛曲县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 瑪曲縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | རྨ་ཆུ་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Maqu County (Chinese: 玛曲县; Tibetan: རྨ་ཆུ་རྫོང་།) is a county of the Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the south of Gansu province of China, bordering the provinces of Sichuan to the east and southeast, and Qinghai to the southwest, west and northwest. Its postal code is 747300, and in 1999 its population was 36,213 people.[2] The word "Maqu" derived from the Tibetan name of Yellow River. The area of Maqu County is 10,191 km2 with an average altitude of 3,700 meters.[3] Maqu County receives high rainfall and is located at the northern edge of the Zoigê Marshes on the Yellow River where conditions are optimal for alpine meadow vegetation.[3]
- ^ "甘南州第七次全国人口普查公报" (in Chinese). Government of Gannan Prefecture. 2021-05-27.
- ^ "HGIS - Downloads". Archived from the original on 2008-08-28. Retrieved 2008-10-12.
- ^ a b "China". Archived from the original on 2007-08-18. Retrieved 2012-12-04.